Belvidere News

The Rock County Communications Center broadcasted a traffic complaint on a Chevy Lumina exiting Interstate 90 traveling westbound on Avalon Road at about 8 p.m. Saturday.

EVEN people who don't normally care much for football tune in to the Super Bowl to watch the best commercials Madison Avenue can dream up.

In this Feb. 3, 2012 photo, workers at Three World Trade Center construction site maneuver steel bars, in New York.

BELVIDERE -- A major bombshell at tonight's Belivdere State of the City Address.

People rarely pick a fight with Dirty Harry. But Chrysler's "Halftime in America" ad featuring quintessential tough guy Clint Eastwood has generated fierce debate about whether it accurately portrays the country's most economically distressed city or amounts to a campaign ad for President Barack Obama and the auto bailouts.

No doubt, many former workers at Janesville's General Motors plant and its subsidiaries have moved on.

A Chrysler Group LLC employee works on a 2012 Jeep Compass sports utility vehicle on the production line at the company's assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois.

Chrysler said Thursday that it is hiring 1,800 new workers and increasing production at its plant in Belvidere, a once-dominant manufacturing area that now has the state's highest unemployment rate and has been battered by the economic downturn.

Workers build a Jeep Compass at the Chrysler assembly plant in Belvidere, Ill. Friday's employment report showed growth in manufacturing, much of which reflects the rebirth of the U.S. auto industry .

An auto worker assembles parts on the 2013 Dodge Dart at the Chrysler Plant in Belvidere, Ill., Thursday, Feb.

BELVIDERE -- While unions are gearing up for the new positions, so were many Stateline residents.

Chrysler is adding 1800 new jobs at its Belvidere, Illinois plant, as it prepares to launch production of the new Dodge Dart compact car.

Chrysler has reported its first annual net income since 1997, and Illinois will benefit from that turnaround to the tune of 1,600 jobs.

Certified quilt appraiser Sherry Branson of Belvidere appraises a customer's 1890s-era "crazy quilt" during the fourth annual quilt walk in downtown Genoa.

A former Poplar Grove Trustee, 53-year-old James Steiner, has been found guilty on six counts of Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child.

Belvidere, Illinois-A Don Beebe House of Speed Speed Camp is now running in Belvidere.

After bankruptcy and a government bailout, the company is turning itself around.

Chrysler Group LLC has begun hiring workers at its factory in Belvidere, Ill., to build the all-new Dodge Dart.